Mount Olive

"From the North summit. A touch of spice on the connecting ridge, but we found it to be okay without crampons. The views from the top were incredible. We skied the west facing bowl back to the glacier. There were a few rocks to dodge up top, but smooth sailing for the bottom 90%. Unfortunately we were about an hour too early for top to bottom corn, but the final 10-20% of the slope corned up nicely. Didn't want to wait too long though. The glacier toe above the hut had turned past corn, but the slush still had body and it was firm underneath. Cream corn? Below the hut had some isothermal junk. We carefully skied to the valley and then "enjoyed" an adventurous exit out the creek with many creek crossings. The lake was still okay to cross, but i doubt it would last much longer. " — mike_rogers81 • May 16, 2021

"Lots of smoke! Couldn't see a whole lot. Couldn't see Mt Gordon... sweet day though, found quite a bit of snow remaining on the approach to the col - made for some tough crevasse mazes, had to do a fair amount of probing. Summit both Olive peaks. Took the front of St Nic on the way down, and went down too far and couldn't get back on the glacier (too thin). Should have stayed high to get back on it, going down the cliff bands was a bit annoying. Water was good. " — jakefinnan • Aug 18, 2018

"Had an alpine start from the parking lot of Bow Lake. Was at the hut in about 4 hours on snowshoes. Dropped our gear off at Bow Hut and then made our way up to the St. Nic / Olive col. Left some gear there and then headed for the summit of Olive. After bagging Olive we headed back to the col and bagged St. Nic." — dkmountainman • May 19, 2012

"Skied in good weather up from Bow lake. Stayed at hut. The weather detritus that night, we had whiteout the next day. We skied in the area all dat. The next day was clear so we went off to get olive. The neXT day it was cloudy again so we Skied out " — andrewbrintnell1 • Mar 21, 1990